I understand that in many instances, it is better if only the admin can delete recordings, however I am the admin, but use that account just for real admin stuff and a managed user account for general watching. I would never have ‘automatic deletion when watched’ as a general setting as most media I…

[image] fernhouse: There needs to be some solution to this, so that whoever is actually able to delete recordings can see which ones have been watched and by whom. There is in the Plex Dashboard. You can look up the play history for all your users. https://support.plex.tv/articles/200871837…

There is a feature request for something similar… Consider voting for it… [image] [Feature Request] Allow Episodes to Auto-Delete After Another User Has Watched Them Feature Suggestions Change the “auto-delete after administrator has watched” setting to allow for us to se…

I would, but apparently no votes left. No idea why as I don’t recall much voting. Or any at all recently. So a simply daft restriction that limits the usefulness of the forum. Well done Plex.

Yes, true, but it’s a terrible faff to have to do that. It is a useful feature, but even when you can see a list of episodes viewed by the selected user, how do you then delete them. Click each one to open that episode’s information, select delete and then return to the viewed list and repeat for ea…

Fair enough. However, the title you have used does not really express what you are looking to do. [image] UKenGB: What is required is for the admin to be able to view movies or episodes of a show and see who has watched them. I think ^^ is better. If you’d like to edit your original post t…

Well I think the requirement is twofold. The admin user needs the above facility for better general maintenance, but non admin users should also have some facility to delete their own recordings. Just like any multi-user Operating System, each user should have autonomy over their own files, but the…

Just like to point out that I started this thread. This forum has recently been messing me around and not letting me log in. So I switched browser to try that and inadvertently logged in as a different user (I appear to have 2 logins for the forum, but only use UKenGB). Anyway, ‘fernhouse’ is also m…

[image] UKenGB: but non admin users should also have some facility to delete their own recordings There’s an issue with this. Recordings are not tracked as to who set the recording so there isn’t a way to “delete their own recording”. What if another user also likes that recording and doesn…

Ok, well first of all, Plex needs to implement media ownership and start tracking who set a recording. Cannot be that hard and provides the needed ownership info to allow users to delete their own recordings. Obviously unix’ file system has a complex system of file permissions, but Plex just needs t…

Delete recordings for non admin users

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